STORM WRECKAGE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 15

STORM WRECKAGE

THAMES' HEAVY LOSS MUCH PROPERTY DAMAGE DEBRIS OVER ROADS (Per Press Association.) THAMES, this day. Heavy seas at high tide last night between 10 o'clock and midnight, pounded the Thame* coast road, causing considerable damage and flooding on waterfront areas: The worst portion of the. damage was between Tararu and Thornton's Bay, a distance of six miles, where the road in places was undermined and partly washed away. Almost the whole stretch was strewn with large boulders, driftwood, and sand, in places over Ift. deep. The road in parts is only negotiable for one-way traffic. The telegraph' line along the foreshore is down, and several poles have been snapped. Properties fronting various bays were damaged, fences and gates being torn away. Between Waiomo and Tapu, further up the Firth, some 10 chains of stono retaining wall was demolished, and the estimated cost of replacing it is £SOO, APPEAL FOR ASSISTANCE DAMAGE AT MILFORP (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The Mayor of Takapuna, through the district member of Parliament, Mr. W. J. Lyon, appealed to-day for Government help in repairing the damage caused by the fierce easterly gale to protective walls and other property at Milford Beach, where to-day a remarkable scene of destruction is presented.